IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference
RAWCON 2004
Special Session Speaker
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4:30pm
Wireless
Sensor and Actor Networks: State-of-the-Art and Challenges
Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Abstract:
The technological advances in the micro-electro-mechanical
systems (MEMS) and the wireless communications have enabled
the deployment of the small intelligent sensor nodes at homes,
in workplaces, supermarkets, plantations, oceans, streets,
and highways to monitor the environment. The realization of
smart environments to improve the efficiency of nearly every
aspect of our daily lives by enhancing the human-to-physical
world interaction is one of the most exciting potential sensor
network applications utilizing these intelligent sensor nodes.
However, this objective necessitates the efficient and application
specific communication protocols to assure the reliable communication
of the sensed event features and hence enable the required
actions to be taken by the actors in the smart environment.
In this talk, the challenges and the existing solutions for
the design and development of sensor/actor network communication
protocols are presented. More specifically, application layer,
transport layer, network layer, data link layer, in particular,
error control and MAC protocols, and physical layer issues
as well as the localization protocols and the time synchronization
algorithms are explained in detail. Open research issues for
the realization of sensor networks are also discussed.
Biography:
Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz is Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor
with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia
Institute of Technology and Director of Broadband and Wireless
Networking Laboratory. He has published over two-hundred technical
papers in journals and conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in-Chief
of Computer Networks (Elsevier Science) and for the newly
launched AdHoc Networks Journal (Elsevier Science). Dr. Akyildiz
is an IEEE FELLOW (1995), an ACM FELLOW (1996). He served
as a National Lecturer for ACM from 1989 until 1998 and received
the ACM Outstanding Distinguished Lecturer Award for 1994.
Dr. Akyildiz received the 1997 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize
award (IEEE Communications Society) for his paper entitled
"Multimedia Group Synchronization Protocols for Integrated
Services Architectures" published in the IEEE Journal
of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) in January 1996.
Dr. Akyildiz received the 2002 IEEE Harry M. Goode Memorial
award (IEEE Computer Society) with the citation "for
significant and pioneering contributions to advanced architectures
and protocols for wireless and satellite networking".
He also received the 2002 IEEE Best Tutorial Paper award (IEEE
Communications Society) for his paper entitled "A Survey
on Wireless Sensor Networks" published in the IEEE Communications
Magazine in July 2002. Dr. Akyildiz further received the 2003
ACM SIGMOBILE award for his outstanding research contributions
to the wireless networking field. His current research interests
are in Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, InterPlaNetary
Internet.
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